Show me your lovely but TINY kitchens in Victorian houses

[drspouse]

I started a thread about kitchen planner apps and the Ikea app was mentioned and it has gone "computer says NO" because the kitchen is too tiny.
The picture (wait for approval, blah blah) shows next door which is a mirror image. It's definitely ground floor (they have a utility room in the basement, though it's marked as the ground floor and the ground floor as the first floor, which is bizarre).

We currently have a full height fridge-freezer in the dining room and we have washing machine and dishwasher in the kitchen. We have some original built in cupboards in the dining room (between the fireplace, which doesn't have a fire in it but has the biggest lintel in the world over the top so can't be knocked through), and backing onto the sitting room on the non-window-wall. These cupboards are nice - panelled, painted white - and it might look good to have the kitchen echo these. Ceilings are high and the previous owners were tall so there are full height cupboards I can't reach (but on the other hand, is the space between a cupboard and the ceiling any use for anything except gathering dust and grease?)

We could possibly relocate the washing machine to the basement but it would be a pain and we don't want an under-worktop fridge so we are happy to keep it in the dining room. Also in the dining room are the dining table, chairs, and a very large Welsh type dresser where we keep ornaments, homework, mug overflow. Not getting rid of dresser (heirloom) but we find it's not massively useful as a kitchen storage overflow, though it's useful as life admin storage.

If it's relevant, we also have the basement steps in the dining room (so that they go under the stairs to the first floor, they also have this but it isn't marked. We have the door off between kitchen/diner (it used to be sliding and was neither use nor ornament) and in fact we also have the door off between dining and hall. The dining room door had original non-safety glass and we were one slammed door away from a major artery rupture in a DC, after a breakage on a similar door to the upstairs loo.

Floor in dining room is original encaustic tiles and in kitchen is harder-than-diamonds black slate (you can drop things on the dining floor and they don't break and then you drop the same thing in the kitchen and wham).

Outside is an outside loo, and a bike shed/chest freezer store.

Anyway - all tiny Victorian kitchen arrangements gratefully acknowledged.

That is absolutely beautiful!!
Gosh I'd rather have a kitchen like this anyday over a huge great soulless kitchen.
What area is behind the high chairs/stools? Is there more kitchen? Or an open dining area?
Although your actual kitchen is small in itself, in the 2nd picture it looks much bigger because it opens out in to more space behind the chairs/stools and I can see lots of light flooding in from behind the chairs. Also looks like a large area opens out in front of that little brown chest with lots of square drawers. All of this 'opens up' your otherwise small kitchen.
Could you tell me your dimensions? I think mine's a similar size and I've got kitchen ency from your beautiful kitchen!

@toonanananalove your kitchen. Your styling is lovely. Particularly love the hook for the pictures at the end of your units.

@Steyning- it’s a peninsula island that opens out to a very modest sized dining room. The kitchen is from Ikea and is 18 years old! Lol! I moved from a newbuild flat and when I came to view this house- I was hook, line and sinker. I’ve further opened out the downstairs by making it open plan (wouldn’t recommend it in hindsight- old houses are too expensive to heat without the extra hassle of heating a massive open space downstairs!).

@TemuTrinny(love the name!), I’m always changing my mind and either hanging pictures or tapestries on the wall and then changing my mind! The hooks work brilliantly and provide some flexibility for when I inevitably want to change things around (again).

DH has mentioned doing a side return (he wants a conservatory - I had one in a previous much smaller Victorian terrace and it was just cold and annoying), but it's already north facing so it would be cold, dark, and damp. Or rather colder, darker, and damper, if we had a courtyard. We also use it for storage (compost, I have a planter bike rack which would be cut off if you couldn't get to it without going through the house), and have two water butts which need to be near the downpipe.
The yarden is minuscule already so I don't want to make it smaller.

@Fearfulsaints as above, under stairs there are more stairs; upstairs there are no cupboards but in the bathroom is a possibility.

If we had the door from the dining room instead of the kitchen, that might not be too bad. Currently just opposite the outside loo are the bins but they could be by the new back door, only down side is taking the kitchen bin through the dining room to empty it which would not be major at all.

DH and I have been discussing oven placement - while the situation is up for grabs, we are both agreed that eye level is better while the DCs are learning to use the oven (both are at that stage, and the lower of the two is ideal for them).

Does that say 3.03 x 3.03? (so 9.18m2)

If so your kitchen is bigger than our new one and ours is plenty big enough.

Ours is 3.2 x 2.3 (7.36m2), in it we have:

appliances:
a standard washer
standard tumble dryer
slimline dishwasher
standard cooker
single width fridge freezer

for units we have:
single basin sink and drainer in a 1000 corner unit
2x 500 draw units
1 x 500 floor cupboard unit
2x 1000 wall units

It actually works so much better than our much bigger old kitchen where you had to traipse back and forth constantly to do anything.

Terrible drawing, but if you move the back door to the window you could then get a straight run across the back. Turn current back door into a window. You could put an eye level oven to the right, meaning the rest of the run is just low level draws.

Then, leave your Cupboard in, put tall (to ceiling) units there. Maybe a pantry cupboard and ff, top cupboards for items you don't often use. I would consider this idea for your cupboard!!

We moved our washer upstairs (victorian) into the bathroom, it makes huge so much easier.

Sorry, here's the link https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP6ylwuDHK9/?igsh=MXcxbXl4eDF0eGU2bQ==

And i hope a bad drawing of what I mean.

Oh it's absolutely beautiful. I am in love!!
What a pleasure it must be to come home to!
You have very good taste.
I think you did the right thing knocking it through!
If you get time, I'd love to know the dimensions of your rooms? Mine looks similarly sized, a bit smaller maybe, and I'd love to take inspiration from what you've done😍

We removed the outside loo and put the washing machine in there. Occasionally a pain if the weather was bad but nice not to listen to it thundering away in a spin cycle. You can stack a dryer on top, or a decent set of shelves which also means you can get all sorts of cleaning products stored outside rather than in the kitchen cupboards.

We could easily move the washing machine back to the outside shed (not the loo, which is next to the house, but the next shed - where the chest freezer is) - it's between that, and the bathroom.

This was my old house. Half-depth cupboards to the ceiling, small-ish fridge-freezer to the left with microwave on top. It had been designed well, so there was really plenty of storage and work space.